Revised License Committee Report for March 2009

wtfpl user wtfpl.user at googlemail.com
Fri Mar 13 22:01:14 UTC 2009


2009/3/5 Russ Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com>

> The board voted yesterday to accept the committee's recommendations.

[...]

>  > Title: WTFPL
>  > Submission:
>  >
> http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:634:200902:aglgcgbhmfcheffmdgon
>  > License: http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/
>  > Comments: It's no different from dedication to the public domain.
>

This is patently not true. A *license* is never equivalent to a dedication
to the public domain. The "Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License"
licensors don't dedicate software to the public domain. For example, imagine
that you may want to ask the authors of the "Do What The Fuck You Want To
Public License" works for a copyright license not titled with the word
"Fuck"... and you'll get it! (For the extra price.)

How is that not "Open Source"?

Please approve the license.


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